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{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}'''Thomas Richards''' ( [[1800]] – [[July 18|18 July]] [[1877]] ) was a Welsh [[surgeon]] who emigrated to [[Hobart]], [[Tasmania]]. He was the editor of and main contributor to the ''Hobart Town Magazine'' and came to be seen as one of the founders of journalism in the country. <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=RICHARDS, THOMAS (1800 - 1877), llenor Awstralaidd {{!}} Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig|url=https://bywgraffiadur.cymru/article/c-RICH-THO-1800|website=bywgraffiadur.cymru|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>
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Roedd ''' Thomas Richards ''' ([[1800]] – [[18 Gorffennaf]], [[1877]]) yn [[Meddyg|feddyg]] Cymreig a ymfudodd i Awstralia lle fu yn un o sylfaenwyr newyddiaduraeth yn y wlad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=RICHARDS, THOMAS (1800 - 1877), llenor Awstralaidd {{!}} Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig|url=https://bywgraffiadur.cymru/article/c-RICH-THO-1800|website=bywgraffiadur.cymru|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>


== Cefndir ==
== Childood ==
Ganwyd Richards yn [[Dolgellau|Nolgellau]] yn blentyn i Thomas Richards, cyfreithiwr ac Elizabeth ei wraig. Nid oes cofnod o union ddyddiad ei eni ond fe'i bedyddiwyd yn Eglwys St Mair, Dolgellau ar 10 Gorffennaf 1800.<ref>Cofrestrau Bedydd 1800 Eglwys St Mair Dolgellau, yng ngofal Gwasanaeth Archifau Gwynedd; Dolgellau; Cyfeirnod: ZM/5835</ref>
Thomas Richards was born in [[Dolgellau]] as the child of Thomas Richards, solicitor, and Elizabeth (neé Highway) his wife. There is no record of the exact date of his birth but he was baptized in St Mary's Church, Dolgellau on 10 July 1800. <ref>Cofrestrau Bedydd 1800 Eglwys St Mair Dolgellau, yng ngofal Gwasanaeth Archifau Gwynedd; Dolgellau; Cyfeirnod: ZM/5835</ref>


== Teulu ==
== Family ==
Priododd Hannah Elsemere, née Adams ar 26 Tachwedd 1828 yn St Pancras, [[Llundain]];<ref>Cofrestr Priodasau Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Camden, yng ngofal London Metropolitan Archives; Llundain; Cyfeirnod: p90/pan1/064</ref> cawsant fab a thair merch.
He married Hannah Elsemere (née Adams) on 26 November 1828 in St Pancras, [[London]]; <ref>Cofrestr Priodasau Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Camden, yng ngofal London Metropolitan Archives; Llundain; Cyfeirnod: p90/pan1/064</ref> they had a son and three daughters.


== Gyrfa ==
== Career ==
Cafodd Richards ei addysgu yn [[Christ's Hospital]], Llundain rhwng 1809 a 1815. Bu wedyn yn brentis i feddyg ac yn mynychu clinigau yn Ysbyty St Bartholomew. Graddiodd gyda Thrwydded Cymdeithas yr Apothecariaid ym 1823. Am y naw mlynedd gyntaf wedi iddo dderbyn ei drwydded bu'n gweithio fel meddyg yn Llundain. Bu hefyd yn cyfrannu yn achlysurol i'r cylchgronau llenyddol ''The Monthly Magazine'' a'r ''British Register''.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Horner|first=J. C.|title=Richards, Thomas (1800–1877)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richards-thomas-4472|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>
Following the death of his father, Richards was enrolled at [[Christ's Hospital]], London between 1809 and 1815. He then became a doctor's apprentice and attended clinics at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He graduated with a [[Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries]] in 1823. Until his emigration to Tasmania, he worked as a doctor in London. He also contributed occasionally to several literary and antiquarian magazines, such as ''The Cambro-Briton, The Monthly Magazine'' and ''The British Register'' . <ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Horner|first=J. C.|title=Richards, Thomas (1800–1877)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richards-thomas-4472|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref><ref name=":2" />


Ym 1832 cafodd Richards swydd fel meddyg llong ar long oedd yn teithio i [[Awstralia]]. Aeth ei wraig a'i blentyn gydag ef ar y daith gan fod y teulu am sefydlu yn Awstralia ar ddiwedd y daith. Cyrhaeddodd tref [[Hobart]] ym mis Hydref 1832. Sefydlodd meddygfa yn Elizabeth Town, [[Tasmania]].
In 1832 Richards paid for his and his family's passage to Australia by working as a ship's doctor on an immigrants ship . His wife and child went with him on the trip as the family wanted to settle in Australia at the end of the trip. He arrived in [[Hobart]] town in October 1832. He established a surgery in Elizabeth Town, [[Tasmania]].


Ychydig wedi iddo gyrraedd Tasmania sefydlodd [[Henry Melville]] (awdur y llyfr ''[[Moby Dick]]'') y cylchgrawn ''Hobart Town Magazine''. Bu Richards yn olygydd a chyfrannwr rheolaidd i'r cylchgrawn yn ystod ei oes fer rhwng Mawrth 1833 ac 1834.
Shortly after Richards arrived in Tasmania[[Henry Melville|, Henry Melville]] (1799-1873) founded the ''[[Hobart Town Magazine]]''. Richards was the main editor and contributor to the magazine during its short life between March 1833 and 1834.<ref name=":1" />


He continued as a medical practitioner until 1836, although he had been working as a clerk for the Hobart Town Surveyor's Department between 1834 and 1837. Between 1837 and 1847 he became the chief reporter of ''[[The Colonial Times]]'' newspaper. After a visit to Britain between 1847 and 1848 he returned to Tasmania working again as a doctor for a while. Later in his life he went back to journalism as a reporter and proofreader for the [[Hobart Mercury|''Hobart Mercury'']], continuing in the post until his death.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Horner|first=J. C.|title=Richards, Thomas (1800–1877)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richards-thomas-4472|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>
Parhaodd i fod yn feddyg hyd 1836, er ei fod wedi bod yn gweithio fel clerc i Adran Syrfëwr Tref Hobart rhwng 1834 a 1837. Rhwng 1837 a 1847 bu'n gweithio fel prif ohebydd y papur ''The Colonial Times''. Wedi ymweliad a Phrydain rhwng 1847 a 1848 dychwelodd i Tasmania gan weithio eto fel meddyg am gyfnod. Yn hwyrach yn ei oes aeth yn ôl i newyddiadura fel gohebydd a phrawf ddarllenydd i'r Hobart Mercury, gan barhau yn y swydd hyd ei farwolaeth.<ref name=":0" />


Am ei gyfraniad hir i newyddiaduraeth ar yr ynys mae Richards yn cael ei adnabod fel ''tad gwasg Tasmania''.<ref>[https://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/1386666/1422911/184#?xywh=-1084%2C403%2C4413%2C3913 Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymrodorion ar gyfer 1988; Parch Patric Haldane-Stevenson THE WELSH IN AUSTRALIA].</ref>
For his long contribution to journalism on the island Richards is known as 'the father of the Tasmanian press'. <ref>[https://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/1386666/1422911/184#?xywh=-1084%2C403%2C4413%2C3913 Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymrodorion ar gyfer 1988; Parch Patric Haldane-Stevenson THE WELSH IN AUSTRALIA].</ref>


== Llenor ==
== Writer ==
[[Delwedd:Rob-the-red-hand.jpg|bawd|Clawr ''Rob the Red Hand'']]
[[Delwedd:Rob-the-red-hand.jpg|bawd| Cover of ''Rob the Red Hand'']]
Roedd Richards yn feirniad drama gyntaf Awstralia ac yn arloeswr y stori fer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tasmanian Creativity|url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tas%20creativity.htm|website=www.utas.edu.au|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>
Richards was Australia's first literary critic and a pioneer of the Tasmanian short story. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Tasmanian Creativity|url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tas%20creativity.htm|website=www.utas.edu.au|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref>


Cyhoeddwyd y rhan helaethaf o waith llenyddol adnabyddadwy Richards yn y ''Hobart Town Magazine''. Roedd o leiaf hanner ei gynnwys yn gerddi, traethodau, adolygiadau, brasluniau a straeon byrion ganddo ef. Mae'n anodd gwneud rhestr gyflawn o'i weithiau lenyddol gan ei fod yn aml yn ysgrifennu o dan ffugenwau, er mwyn cuddio faint o gynnwys y papurau oedd wedi dod o'i ysgrifbin ef. Roedd 'Mervinius', 'Edward Trevor Anwyl' a 'Peregrine' ymysg yr enwau byddai'n defnyddio.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress – bydbach|url=https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress/|access-date=2023-10-26|language=en-US|last=Singer|first=Rita}}</ref> Roedd cefndir Cymreig i fwyafrif o'i straeon byrion ac wedi gosod ym Meirionnydd ei blentyndod.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Books {{!}} Rob the Red-Hand by Thomas Richards|url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/rob-the-red-hand/|website=Wales Arts Review|date=2018-03-17|access-date=2019-11-11|first=Bethan|last=Jenkins|archiveurl=|archivedate=|deadurl=}}</ref>
A significant volume of Richards' recognizable literary work was published in the ''Hobart Town Magazine''. At least half of the magazine's content was poems, essays, reviews, sketches and short stories by him. It is difficult to estimate his complete critical, antiquarian and literary output as he often wrote under pseudonyms, in order to hide the extent of the content of the papers that had come from his pen. 'Mervinius', 'Edward Trevor Anwyl' and 'Peregrine' were among the names he would use. <ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress – bydbach|url=https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress/|access-date=2023-10-26|language=en-US|last=Singer|first=Rita}}</ref> The majority of his short stories had a Welsh background and were set between [[Barmouth]] and [[Dolgellau]] in the county of his childhood, [[Merionethshire]]. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Books {{!}} Rob the Red-Hand by Thomas Richards|url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/rob-the-red-hand/|website=Wales Arts Review|date=2018-03-17|access-date=2019-11-11|first=Bethan|last=Jenkins|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref>


Yn 2017 casglodd a golygodd Rita Singer nifer o'i straeon Cymreig am y tro cyntaf a'u cyhoeddi fel'' Rob the Red-Hand and Other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery''. <ref>{{Cite book|title=Rob the Red-Hand : and other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059221513|location=Aberystwyth|isbn=9781891271274|oclc=1059221513|last=Richards|first=Thomas|publisher=Celtic Studies Publications|year=2017|pages=|editor-last=Singer|editor-first=Rita}}</ref>
In 2017 Rita Singer collected and edited a selection of Richards's Welsh stories for the first time and published them as ''Rob the Red-Hand and Other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery'' . <ref>{{Cite book|title=Rob the Red-Hand : and other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059221513|location=Aberystwyth|isbn=9781891271274|oclc=1059221513|last=Richards|first=Thomas|publisher=Celtic Studies Publications|year=2017|pages=|editor-last=Singer|editor-first=Rita}}</ref>


== Marwolaeth ==
== Death ==
Bu farw yn Portsea Place, Hobart yn 77 mlwydd oed.<ref>Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, Hobart Tasmania, 1877 rhif 604</ref>
According to his death certificate, Richards died of infirmity and old age at Portsea Place, Hobart aged 77. <ref>Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, Hobart Tasmania, 1877 rhif 604</ref>


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Thomas Richards
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Thomas Richards ( 1800 – 18 July 1877 ) was a Welsh surgeon who emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania. He was the editor of and main contributor to the Hobart Town Magazine and came to be seen as one of the founders of journalism in the country. [1]

Childood

Thomas Richards was born in Dolgellau as the child of Thomas Richards, solicitor, and Elizabeth (neé Highway) his wife. There is no record of the exact date of his birth but he was baptized in St Mary's Church, Dolgellau on 10 July 1800. [2]

Family

He married Hannah Elsemere (née Adams) on 26 November 1828 in St Pancras, London; [3] they had a son and three daughters.

Career

Following the death of his father, Richards was enrolled at Christ's Hospital, London between 1809 and 1815. He then became a doctor's apprentice and attended clinics at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He graduated with a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1823. Until his emigration to Tasmania, he worked as a doctor in London. He also contributed occasionally to several literary and antiquarian magazines, such as The Cambro-Briton, The Monthly Magazine and The British Register . [4][5]

In 1832 Richards paid for his and his family's passage to Australia by working as a ship's doctor on an immigrants ship . His wife and child went with him on the trip as the family wanted to settle in Australia at the end of the trip. He arrived in Hobart town in October 1832. He established a surgery in Elizabeth Town, Tasmania.

Shortly after Richards arrived in Tasmania, Henry Melville (1799-1873) founded the Hobart Town Magazine. Richards was the main editor and contributor to the magazine during its short life between March 1833 and 1834.[1]

He continued as a medical practitioner until 1836, although he had been working as a clerk for the Hobart Town Surveyor's Department between 1834 and 1837. Between 1837 and 1847 he became the chief reporter of The Colonial Times newspaper. After a visit to Britain between 1847 and 1848 he returned to Tasmania working again as a doctor for a while. Later in his life he went back to journalism as a reporter and proofreader for the Hobart Mercury, continuing in the post until his death.[4]

For his long contribution to journalism on the island Richards is known as 'the father of the Tasmanian press'. [6]

Writer

Cover of Rob the Red Hand

Richards was Australia's first literary critic and a pioneer of the Tasmanian short story. [7]

A significant volume of Richards' recognizable literary work was published in the Hobart Town Magazine. At least half of the magazine's content was poems, essays, reviews, sketches and short stories by him. It is difficult to estimate his complete critical, antiquarian and literary output as he often wrote under pseudonyms, in order to hide the extent of the content of the papers that had come from his pen. 'Mervinius', 'Edward Trevor Anwyl' and 'Peregrine' were among the names he would use. [5] The majority of his short stories had a Welsh background and were set between Barmouth and Dolgellau in the county of his childhood, Merionethshire. [8]

In 2017 Rita Singer collected and edited a selection of Richards's Welsh stories for the first time and published them as Rob the Red-Hand and Other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery . [9]

Death

According to his death certificate, Richards died of infirmity and old age at Portsea Place, Hobart aged 77. [10]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "RICHARDS, THOMAS (1800 - 1877), llenor Awstralaidd | Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig". bywgraffiadur.cymru. Cyrchwyd 2019-11-11.
  2. ↑ Cofrestrau Bedydd 1800 Eglwys St Mair Dolgellau, yng ngofal Gwasanaeth Archifau Gwynedd; Dolgellau; Cyfeirnod: ZM/5835
  3. ↑ Cofrestr Priodasau Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Camden, yng ngofal London Metropolitan Archives; Llundain; Cyfeirnod: p90/pan1/064
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Horner, J. C., "Richards, Thomas (1800–1877)", Australian Dictionary of Biography (National Centre of Biography, Australian National University), http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/richards-thomas-4472, adalwyd 2019-11-11
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Singer, Rita. "Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress – bydbach" (yn Saesneg). Cyrchwyd 2023-10-26.
  6. ↑ Trafodion Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymrodorion ar gyfer 1988; Parch Patric Haldane-Stevenson THE WELSH IN AUSTRALIA.
  7. ↑ "Tasmanian Creativity". www.utas.edu.au. Cyrchwyd 2019-11-11.
  8. ↑ Jenkins, Bethan (2018-03-17). "Books | Rob the Red-Hand by Thomas Richards". Wales Arts Review. Cyrchwyd 2019-11-11.
  9. ↑ Richards, Thomas (2017). Singer, Rita (gol.). Rob the Red-Hand : and other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications. ISBN 9781891271274. OCLC 1059221513.
  10. ↑ Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, Hobart Tasmania, 1877 rhif 604
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